Does A Flush Beat A Pair In Poker

Posted on 7/31/2022by admin

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The odds are 7.5:1 for hitting a set on the flop from a pocket pair. For open-ended straights or flush draws on the flop, it's around 2:1 to hit by the river. Which online poker sites do you recommend using this calculator on? You can use this poker hand calculator to replicate hands you played at any poker site. This rule makes it impossible to hit three pairs. What beats trips? Straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, straight flush and royal flush, beat trips. And of course higher trips if we don’t hold the highest one. You will hit a stronger hand than trips 0.76% of the time. A royal flush is when you have 10-J-Q-K-A, all of the same suit. It is the highest straight.

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As a new player, it is common that poker rankings are unclear to you. When I started playing in 2007, I was also unsure if a triple beats two pairs or not. In fact, it was even worse. For about 14 days, my friends and I were convinced we are playing poker according to the rules. It turned out each one of us was wrong :D.

Triple (or better-known trips) beats 2 pairs in poker. This is because you are statistically less likely to hit it than 2 pairs. This is true if you hold a pair in your hand and hit the third card on the board or if the board is paired, and you have the third card in your hand to give you trips.

The same, of course, goes for any stronger hand than three of a kind. 4 of a kind beats 2 pairs because it is even less likely to hit than trips.

How likely are you to hitspecific hands in poker?

Your odds of hitting a specific hand varies greatly depending on which street you want to hit your hand. The stronger the hand, the harder it is to hit. Have a look at the table below. Note: The table includes all random hands and boards. The percentage consists of only the specified hand and not a specific hand + all lower hands!

At first glance, you might think I am contradicting myself. Chances to hit 2 pairs are only 2%, while trips have a 12% chance to hit. We need to account for the possibility of us getting a pair preflop first. We will be dealt a pair about 6% of the time or once every 17 hands. This together makes hitting trips much less likely than two pairs. Same for hitting a flush on the flop. We need to be dealt suited cards first even to have the 0.8% chance to hit the flush on the flop.

Does A Straight And A Pair Beat A Flush

If you want to read more about the chances to hit a specific hand, here is a useful link to Wikipedia about it.

What do 2 pairs beat in poker?

Two pairs do beat some hands. They beat all pairs and all no pair hands. Especially in 6max games, and even in full ring, 2 pairs often wins. Of course, you would prefer to have the top two pair, so now you beat all the lower two pairs. It is even better if no other draws have hit. With that, I mean no flushes or straights are possible. Now our top two pair is powerful. It gets beaten by only three of a kind.

When some straight or even flushes are possible, our 2 pair can’t withstand a lot of pressure. Person betting will either be betting with a hand better than ours. Maybe the opponent will value bet with a set, straight, or a flush. Only hands that we would at that point are the ones he decided to turn into a bluff. A good rule of thumb is to believe the opponent has the hand until you are proven wrong. You don’t want to start making expensive hero calls against unknown players. Once you are given more info that they are capable of the bluff, then you can consider making some hero calls. But be careful. You will make more money by value betting than hero calling.

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Three of a Kind vs. 2 Pairs Compared by Winrate

It is of no surprise that you will make a lot more money with sets than 2 pairs. Three of a kind is statistically less likely to hit, so you should have a higher winrate with it, compared to two pairs.

If you pay close attention to both graphs, you might notice that I have about 3500 cases for both scenarios. You might be asking why is that if two pairs are more likely to hit? The graph includes only hands made by the river. Moreover, it contains only two pairs where we don’t hold a pair in our hand preflop.

Both hands make good money. Two pairs are decent money-making hand, and you should learn when to value bet it, and when to give up even though you hold 2 pairs.

Triple does even better. My graph looks very smooth, with almost no variance. If you have a significant sample as I do and your chart for sets doesn’t go up steadily but instead bounces up and down, then you are doing something wrong.

Learning to play 2 pairs and your triples efficiently is an essential skill you should learn early on in your poker career. Even more important is to learn when to fold them. Any poker player, being inexperienced or a seasonal pro, will know how to make money with both of these hands. But it is often that amateur players will have difficulties knowing when to fold them. For poker pros, it is not uncommon they fold as strong hands as 2 pairs or triples if they believe they are beaten.

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Both 2 pairs but of different value

This is probably the most common scenario when you see both players having two pairs. It is easier to have 2 pairs of a different value than having exactly the same two pairs. This is due card removal effect – if we hold AQ, then AQ is less likely to be in the opponent’s hand.

Higher pair is different, and a lower pair is the same

If a higher pair is different, then no need to check the lower pair anymore. We already know that the person with the higher pair in their two pairs wins.

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Example: we have AT, and the opponent has KT. Board is AKT23. First, we check, and we see that we both have 2 pairs. But we win because our highest pair is higher than the opponent’s highest pair. The fact that the lower pair is the same as an opponent’s it doesn’t matter. Also, the fact that our kicker is lower is, in this case, completely irrelevant.

Once the higher pair is different, we know we already have the winner. In our case, we have two pairs aces and tens with a king kicker, and the opponent has two pairs of kings and tens with an ace kicker.

Higher pair is the same, and the lower pair is different

If both players have the highest pair the same, but the lower pair is different, then the person with higher 2nd pair wins. For example, AK vs. AT on AKT23 board. We will win with AK as we have two pairs aces and kings with a ten kicker, and the opponent has two pairs aces and tens with a king kicker.

We check the highest pair, and we see it is the same, then we move down to 2nd pair, and we see that our 2nd pair is higher than the opponent’s, so no need to check the kicker, we win.

Both pairs are different

The person with the highest pair wins when both pairs are different. If you hold AK and the opponent has T9 on the AT9K2 board, then you are the winner since you have two pair aces and kings with a T kicker. Opponent only has two pairs of tens and nines with an ace kicker. – you can see that it is enough just to check the highest of the two pairs in each player’s hand and we know who the winner is.

Both players have the same 2 pairs

Different kicker

If players have a different kicker and both pairs are the same, then the person with the highest kicker will win. Let’s check an example:

We have KT, and the opponent holds JT. Board is QQT23. We win the pot, we have the same two pair, but we have a better kicker than our opponent. Our hand is two pairs, queens and tens with a king kicker, the opponent has the same hand, but only jack kicker.

The kicker is the same

If the kicker is the same and both pairs are the same, then pot gets split.

There is not much more to explain, so let us move on to the next possible scenarios :).

Two pairs on the board

Sometimes it will happen that there are 2 pairs already on the board. If nobody else holds a higher pair in their hand, then the kicker will be a deciding factor in who wins the pot. If the kicker is of the same rank, then the pot gets split. Let’s check two examples:

Board is A3773: We have A2, and the opponent has K4. We win because we have a higher two pair than the opponent. Our hand is two pair, aces, and sevens with a 3 kicker (AA773), while the opponent has two pair, sevens and threes with an ace kicker (7733A).
This time board is T3773. We hold A2, and the opponent has AK. The pot gets split as we both have two pairs, sevens and threes, with an ace kicker (7733A). Remember, the best five-card combination wins.

How strong are two pairs

Two pairs are a decently strong hand. You can expect to have 2 pairs around every 21 hands (if you wouldn’t be folding and always went to showdown). Or if we transfer this into percentages, you have a 4.75% chance to have exactly two pairs at showdown. To check probabilities to hit certain hands, check this link to Wikipedia.

As you were able to see from all the examples above, some two pairs are much better than the other two pairs. Having the top two pairs is excellent. Even top and bottom pair are a lot better than having 2nd and 3rd pair. But

The value of our two pairs is different depending on the board, and our equities can change dramatically. Let’s check a few examples:

Dry boards

On very dry boards, our two pairs are a valuable hand. Of course, our bottom two pairs aren’t as strong as the top two pairs, but nonetheless, we still do beat plenty of hands. Check the equities on Q95 rainbow board:

Wet flops and mono boards (of one color)

Straight possible boards

We have 87, on three straight boards like 6h7h8s many opponents will be betting if they have a 9 and a pair, sets, lower two pairs, high flush draws, and made straights. Our equity of the top two pairs is a lot worse here than on a dry board above. Let’s see in the table below how we do against certain hands.

The most surprising is that 69 has almost 44% to win against the top two pairs there. The board is 6h7h8s:

Mono (flush hits on the flop) board

On 2h7h8h board, our 87isn’t such a good hand anymore. It is largely behind flushes (it has 17.3% to win), and we have only 63% against ace-high flush draw (AhTs in our example). Against T9 (including flushes) we now have 56.4% equity, which is around as much as QQ has against AK offsuit, and many categorize that as a flip already.

Conclusion

All the examples above will make you a lot more confident next time when you see the same cards at showdown. Keep playing, and eventually, you will know in a split of a second who wins the pot. It kind of becomes muscle memory after a while. If you are interested in similar articles, then check the section below. Good luck at the tables.